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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Hep Taxi!

Thank you Danielle for the photos, and let me broadcast here as well: To all the belgian fans of Justine, do not forget tonight program of Hep Taxi! featuring Justine at 22H45 or on Tuesday evening on "La Deux".

I wish I can really access the site which I still unfortunately can't do it. But I hope they have something like a copy of the video on the site because I still can download it at my sweet sunshine's house.

Here's the lovely photos of Justine, and I only upload those that have Justine in it, Merci Danielle pour les belles photos de Justine!(My french isn't good, so do pardon me if there's any mistake)

Anyway, here's the delicacies to your eyes:

Justine is being "scrutinized"

King look->Firm and strict looking

Queen look->calm and deep in thoughts

Princess look->Lovely and smiling, Attractive!

Prince look->Handsome and smiling, Charming!

What look should I name this? The eye power station look, if you get what I mean

And the behind the scene pics:

Justine and a woman with a model like pose

Justine with a young shy girl and a man with artistic hairstyle

The artistic hairstyle man showing his artistic hands and Justine without showing her another pair of artistic hands

Getting ready...let's put some protective cover on your clothes

Ju:"Hmmm, the powder got into my nostrils..."

This side view of Justine looks like her teenage time in year 2000 when she was 18 years old

For those who didn't join the group and did not have access to the docs, below are the English version, translated by Danielle:

First part

I seek a new legitimacy

Justine Henin, 30 years has a very new life in front of her. She tells herself, she moves: “Tenniswas a place of survival”.

Which are your occupations?

I have the Club, the Academy, the association of ill children, my role in Unicef. I very invested myself, my days are occupied, I am close present here. And if something completely again had suddenly been born? I have a desire of child, yes, but I am very curious to discover things. It is like a second birth. I was in a bubble, I protected myselfso much at the time, today I have the impression of discover people, things.I was imprisoned in an image. Today my contacts are increasingly natural. The report with people compared to the representation whom they were made of me, it is not simple, no matter what I can do. People whom one admired, or wants them iinfallible. But it is necessary today that I find another legitimacy, that I start again another thing completely. I had imagined at one time to resume my studies. You know I did not finish my humanities, I stopped in fourth secondary for tennis, where as I was a very good pupil. I tried to begin again thereafter but I felt that it was not the moment. Today I must find another expert testimony. I am all rediscovering. I do not know where I want to go. But I know the values which are expensive to me.

After is high level sport, it so difficult?

Adrenalin, the pressure touch a zone, for a high level sportsman, very particular. The physical pain involves you even side of death, to reappear then.These zones, one wants to go back there. Anenormous need for there going back…

Do you work on yourself?

Yes, I never hid it. Many people are in analysis.This work pays only if one goes at the bottom of the things with honesty, while going to seek very far. I do it. At certain very important times of my life, there are questions which I did not want to ask me, a reality to which I did not want to cope.The mourning of my mom (whom she always pronounces “maaman”, like this famous day on the central court of Roland Garros). To do this work is beneficial, that allows me hearth less intolerant compared to the others and myself. But I remain very demanding and complex. In the life that I had, one is very egocent person, one has a team which makes very for you permanently.When one leaves there, one must learn how to manage things, to manage oneself, his report with the others. I want to learn how to communicate with people. I feel isolated always a little, except for. It related to my is lived. And as I am very perfectionist, very ambitious, that complicates a little my report with the others. Therelease-catch is difficult, but I progress (She smiles).

Does the “psychologist” interest you?

I adore. I am impassioned by the personality of people, lived to them. One often tells me: “You go too far, you are too complicated.” The fact of posing many questions to me was often a brake for me. It is a whole paradox: I am a go-ahead type and to the same moment, I call myself in question. I always need to find a direction with the things.

Was tennis “the " direction?

It was an extraordinary loophole, a place of survival. I did not have an easy adolescence after the death of my mother. Small I was in my world,already a little complicated. Tennis gave me a framework, rules, a life plan, a vital discipline forme. In tennis, I knew what I had to do, even if I were anxious and nervous. Today I am curious about what I will be able to say in ten years. I do not have any more anguish, the life reveals me beautiful surprises.

Remarks collected by Beatrice Delvaux.

Second part

Her biography

Born in Liege on June 1st, 1992, Justine grows in Rochefort. She begins tennis as of her 5 years. At the 14 years old, after the death of her mother, she is taken to charge some by Carlos Rodriguez who will follow it throughout her career. She gains the “Bowl Orange” of less than 14 years and Roland Garros Juniors. Her great beginnings in the circuit pro take place in 1999 at the 17 years old. In the course of the years, she builds an extraordinary prize list including four Roland Garros, an Olympic title, a Fed Cup and the title of Sporting world in 2007. One year after, at 25 years, she stops all… in full glory

Third part

“My cap it was my carapace”

“My cap it was part of me, it is less the case today. It was not pain-killer, it was my carapace, I were more in safety under my cap. Not the image of me that I prefer, it is not that one, it is me with my godsons or a child. When I give, I give all. I am very tender. Today which sees me say: “Justine is not such as one had imagined it”. I arrive there, it is not that an image, I work there. I left a large pressure, of much of stresses.

Fourth part

“This “One”, I badly lived it went too much far”

“That would have been easier obviously to have a husband, a child. Like Kim (Clijsters). Yes inevitably. I suffered from that. The “one” of a certain magazine - Paris Match had titrated “the happiness of Kim “killed” Justine” - I badly lived it, even if that contained a share of truth. But it is behind me. The role of the press is important, the accuracy of the words is very important: here it went too far.” A child? “It is a life plan for me. When will that come? It is another question. I will then need to continue to have other plans. That cogitates much at certain times. My life is not empty, I discover. It is that the training.”

Fifth part

“I was afraid of the shade at certain times” - “My second career enabled me to make the mourning of my decision stop.”

Your current life?

It is not ordinary and at the same time it be comes

it: I wish to benefit from the simple pleasures of the life. One very simple moment, so vital, can help me with me ressourcer. Three days ago, I had a blow of slackness, a dissatisfaction. With Benoit (his companion), one travelled by the car irection Han-sur-Lesse in my family. What a happiness to be there in the countryside, to breathe!

You do not have money worries: it is a peace

The money facilitates many things obviously.When the situation of certain people is seen I cannot obviously complain. But the money brings other difficulties: is quid of honesty, people are there? The not involved people are rare around me. However I have despite everything a financial safety to ensure. I was very badly surrounded at a certain time. The sharks are there, with the lure of gain.

Should confidence be remade?

It is my greater difficulty today. It is also necessary to give a direction to all that: to have gained such an amount of money! To earn money to live, in a more comfortable way, not to be worried about the ends of the month, but I did not find the direction yet.

Do you earn a living how from now on?

I do not earn really any more a living, I live of what I gained. I made investments not brilliant at a given time, I could leave me all that. I want to ensure financial safety now. I do not work to earn a living but to give direction to my projects.

As here in Limelette with the Academy of tennis?

I am not here any more in an approach business.I will be very happy if one gives pleasure to the customers, to the young people and a financial balance in fine. I never gained an euro of my projects, I am here the every day, I make decisions, good or bad. I want something of credible, coherent. But I do not want to continue any more to lose money. There is no business at the end of this, but of the good being. That was not always the case it was not born on good bases.

Were you very exposed in the media at one time,XII work of Justine, etc?

I do not regret. But I was afraid of the shade at certain times. Today much less than front. This adrenalin that I did not have any more in tennis, in an unconscious way, I were going to seek it in the media exposure.And at the same time, I am very timid. I can go along the walls, I am badly at ease with the idea to give a call, I am afraid to disturb, except in my very restricted circle. I work also on top. I have at the same time an enormous decency and I can be jovial, large mouth. To counter all that, I chose a form of mediatization. There is a share in the journalism which me fascine.

A word which defines you today?

“Just”, that returns much in my vocabulary. Like legitimate. The idea to be OK of the beginning at the end of a thing. I do not want to precipitate me.My second career allowed me many things. One,to understand why I had stopped the first time:because I did not want to do that any more, I wanted to make another thing. The second time I stopped on physical wound, these things never arrive by chance. Two: to make peace with the brutality with which I had stopped the first time.Three: not to make the same mistakes more, to separate me from certain people, I needed some. My second career enabled me to make the mourning of my decision stop. I returned to tennis, with a new entourage.

Were you lost after the first stop?I crossed the depression. But I very quickly have a great strength of character, I born again very quickly . I am persuaded that if I did not have taken again , I would have lived with many difficulties. I returned while telling me that I wanted to live my career differently, that allowed me to face a certain form of loneliness, compared to myself and compared to the others. On the sporting level, that obliged me with a form of humility. It is a value for me essential at the others and it is there that I want to go.When this life was carried out, that one is acclaimed, it is graying, that gives you wings.Then when suddenly you lose a match, that you are alone in your room, that everyone criticizes you, that makes you return the feet on the ground (she laughs). The second career helped me to accept that the wealth can be elsewhere. In a certain form of simplicity, by living the everyday life.

What is tennis in your remembering?

Work, a handing-over in continual question,hard-line attitude. it is that which I retain, not titles of large the schelemn. When I think of Justine, I think of when it was hard, of the effort on oneself,with work. What I retain of my course it is that,because if not, tennis, it is to type on a small ball

Sixth part

BEIJING, LONDON

In 2008, Justine is proposed by Belgium for the Commission of the Olympic athletes, which gives the right to a seat to CIO. She failure the election of a place, partly because she did not come to campaign in Beijing near the athletes. “It was not the moment. I did not feel energy for that. I did not fight because at the time, it was not a priority. I do not regret anything, that allows me to have other doubts. I do not want to have all my anchorings in the sport. Perhaps that my place will be in this world one day; I play a role to play in my Academy with Limelette. But I will not revolutionize anything. “Will she Go with the OG of London this summer? “I did not go to Beijing: I had just stopped tennis, I were fed up with all that so much. Today, I find a healt hier and more serene relationship with the sport and the competition. I felt all the phases of young person of the Nadal-Djokovic finale in Australia. That belongs to my life. And with the OG reigns a spirit which versifies with the going beyond oneself, not with the money: I like much that. I will thus go to London but I do not know yet which role I will play there. I have proposals. But I need a phase of hopper. I do not want to dip back immediately, I want to want. I do not need any more already and that, it is very well! The desire it is that which will push me”.

DOPING

When Justine Henin stops for the first time her career, the rumor is propagated and saw always today: it would have been controlled positive and would stop to avoid any revelation. Justine reacts, it will be the only moment of the interview where mistrust returns, where she stiffens: “It is afflicting.The rumor is propagated so much quickly. That goes even further, people are said: “Her success is not normal, there is something behind.” One cannot agree that an individual can want another thing, to make a mourning. They are however hard moments for a sportsman: to let go her place of number 1, Roland Garros… the human being needs to return on itself, it is a proof of intelligence. But for the others, it is not inevitably normal: “Not possible that she wants another thing whereas she gains much money, that she is adulated”. Us are believed infallible. I suffered much from that at the time, if people knew! I know which I am, which I did or not made,the remainder it is human silly thing. When one sees a sportsman succeeding, one finds that “not normal”. In Belgium, that exists much, this suspicion behind the success. “Contador? “I do not know so much the file or the context. But it is very although the law is applied.”

CARLOS

“I lost much reference mark very early. I left the house at 17 years. I joined again since the contacts with my dad, even if it is not always simple. But I did not have anchoring with the parents. My rebellion, I had it compared to all that. I was a being depending affectivement, I listened to the others always much. Sometimes I did not want of be reasonable and I did not always listen to the good people. I do not speak of course about Carlos. He had a fundamental importance for me, like coach of player and family of substitution. But there is a danger: that does not give a balance but a very fusional relation. I felt guilty compared to Carlos, I wanted to worry me his reconversion, and he did not want to give up me. It is a lure in fact, and an error, because each one must fly of its own wings. This is why the bases of our project (the Academy of tennis 6th Sense that Justine directs to Limelette and Carlos to China) were not the good ones. It now was discovered. It was decided that our professional lives separated. I am not afraid any more of the time which passes. They are my desires, not those of Carlos or of those which crossed my life which determines “what Justine needs”. It is with me to answer this question”.

Last part

BELGIUM

Tried by the policy?

“Not so much, I would have difficulty selling to me. I would want with all my naivety to make evolve the things but I do not know how. But my place is not there. And I do not want to be used, I do not want to swindle people on my name”

.Belgium?

“I hold with this country. But it is true that there exists a difference in culture enormous between the two communities. I never learned Dutch and I regret it. That would perhaps not have changed the things but it is an effort which us, French-speaking, we would have of making”.

The political crisis?

“I see on TV looked at the debates with anger and incomprehension like much. But to be a man or a political woman, it is difficult. Personally, I would not like any. Days and nights to assume enormous responsibilities! ”

Flanders?

“I have fans in Flanders. I never felt these Community problems in the sport. And I often take the Flemings in example on the level of work: more rigorous, more structured. They have as sets which one does not have and vice versa”.

To separate?

“I do not know. I feel Belgian. I travelled much, I am rather wandering. But I know from where I come. When I am not well, I sink with Han-sur-Lesse."

MONACO

“Monaco? It was a life style choice at the time. the first reason was not financial. I adore my country, his simplicity, his heat but I felt with narrow in Belgium. I did not want an obstacle with my development, with a form of ambition. Monaco was not far, the climate was good and if ,moreover, it were financially interesting… I had good moments, I lived with Pierre-Yves (her ex-husband). The daily newspaper in Belgium weighed me: over there I was freer, more at ease. But I missed my countryside: Monaco, it was not me. I would like to anchor me some share. The day when I will have children, I hope to give them a stability. I am rather wandering. I do not have anything, not pieces of furniture, no tof objects only some bags of clothing and the ring of my mom, it is all that I kept of it. I regret not having preserved his library. Does the books that say many people, not? (She smiles). I have incredible memories of the apartment above the post office in Rochefort where we lived when mom died. I built myself there. There is also the house of my godmother - my second mom - with Han-sur Lesse, where I took refuge, a place cocoon. With Benoit (his companion), one

perhaps will approach from here (Limelette), one wants a project with two.”

4 comments:

Oh I didn't know that, thanks for telling me! Haha she really looking shy, who would have thought that she's her spokeswoman? But then again, she may also be very good in speech to be Justine's spokeswoman :D